Re: A Japanese keyboard with English Windows XP

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From: Ken Masuyama
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:04

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David McNerney wrote:
> The problem is: even if I choose a Japanese keyboard for my input
> language(s) in the "Regional and Language Options" control panel, XP
> still uses the US layout both in US English and Japanese input
> lanaguages (IME direct mode). So when I hit the colon key on the
> Japanese keyboard, I get a single quote, and in the Japanese input
> language mode the special keys for typing Japanese don't work.

Not sure about XP, but there is a bug in Win2k that the system
chooses a wrong driver.  I manually fixed the problem by

1. make sure you have kbdjpn.dll and kbd106.dll installed under
    windows system32 directory.
2. run regedit.exe.
3. open 
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters".

Change the values like this:
   LayerDriver JPN=KBD106.DLL
   OverrideKeyboardType=7
   OverrideKeyboardSubtype=2
   OverrideKeyboardIdentifier=PCAT_106KEY

It worked for me.  I HATE GUI SETUP!

Ken Masuyama  ez3k-msym@asahi-net.or.jp

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